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Everyone sees the world through their own eyes, filtered by what their past and what know. A peculiar perspective of Smalltalk programmers is to consider that "code in files is dea…

> * Tests are now common and considered a good thing. A new contributor can write code without worrying about breaking rarely-used functionality. btw, xUnit testing originated with…

Check out... "Zinc" - It used to be an external package later integrated into Pharo. To check it out, download Pharo 5 from http://pharo.org/download then try the tutorial... http:…

Having said that, coming to Pharo from a C programming background, one area that for "a while" I found over complex was use of the visitor pattern and double-delegation. This was f…

> criticisms I've seen of OOP, that it too easily results in overly-complex software With respect to other languages, many don't do OOP well ;] Indeed in the OP video Alan Kay said…

> it was not what I would call clean. That's given you a false impression. The .st file is only an the export/transfer format to be loaded into another Smalltalk system. Smalltalk …

> How anyone could possibly be productive in such an environment. What is it that's so attractive about it to Smalltalkers? Now you've probably heard that in Smalltalk everything i…

> SBE is so far out of date Pharo By Example is being revised for Pharo 5. The first 13 chapters are done... https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/UpdatedPharoByExa... The who…

> The colorful Playskool environment That was likely Squeak, not Pharo. Pharo has muted a lot of the UI colours to be more appropriate for a business environment. > How anyone coul…